Usagi's eyes grew huge at the demonic woman before her.

'Beryl's daughter? How?' Usagi could just not wrap her mind around this new situation. What they do with this woman? She appeared to be more evil then her mother!

"You must be wondering how or maybe when?" Soanyo inquired with a small smirk as she crouched down to a now waist deep Usagi. "I will tell you." Usagi had stopped struggling as soon as she found out who Soanyo was related to. Something told her that who she was very important and she needed to know. Ami would need to know more to beat this enemy. "After the destruction of the Moon Kingdom Beryl was left alone, her mission to destroy Earth put off after your mother imprisoned her and her shadow warriors. She soon longed for companionship as she is only human, but she was surrounded with only monsters and clones! She took her own dna and that of one of her most powerful minions and made me!" the red haired woman boasted. "I am a half breed. A test tube baby!"

"But where did you come from!?" Usagi inquired. They had never heard of this woman before now so where had she been hiding? She had to be even more powerful then Beryl or any of her other minions so why not send her out to destroy all of Beryl's enemies? It made no sense!

"The Negaverse, of course!" was the quick response. "They aged me within several years so that I could learn my mother's life and become her heir to the throne of darkness."

"That was a real short story," Usagi muttered. Not much to go on from that! At this Soanyo glared at the blond.

"Well, duh," she growled. "Not much to tell when you haven't had a life!" At this Usagi looked thoughtful. There was the weakness! This was girl trapped in a woman's body! She was pissed at her mother for not giving her a life! "Anyway, I came to kill you, but seeing as you don't have a single crystal, much less heard of them then I guess that I have to let you go." She turned from Usagi. "But don't forget that you are living on borrowed time," the woman warned.

Usagi shot up, her body shaking from the nightmare mixed with the fact that she was laying in ice cold water.

"Damn!" the blond said as she stood up, her legs like jelly.

"Just remember I will kill you," the voice echoed around the bathroom as Usagi began to exit the tub. Just then the room around her began to blur and spin causing the blond super heroin to fall forward. Usagi reached out to stop herself and managed to grab the towel rack on her right. With a sigh she held on with one hand while the rest of her naked form fell to the ground.

"Damn it," she muttered as the room stopped being so blurry. Now she just had to wait for the spinning to stop. Closing her eyes she counted to ten and then slowly opened her eyes. The spinning had stopped so she slowly got back up and headed with slow steps toward her room where she collapsed on her bed. After a few seconds she pulled the sheets over her naked form and passed. out.

The next morning Usagi managed to awaken an hour before school. She took a quick shower as she had decided that she would not be taking any baths for a long time. Sure, she knew that Soanyo would show up when she wished, but that did not mean that she was going to take a chance in the tub where she could drown. She planned her day in her head as she grabbed a quick bite of food and headed out the door to find Ami. She would need to be informed about this new enemy, of course leaving out the part about her being the Moon Princess. They would need to find these crystals that Soanyo had mentioned. Maybe Luna would know! After all it had happened on the Moon when her mother was queen! As Usagi ran she looked around her. That witch could locate her anywhere and she would not take a chance that she could find her not with her feeling like shit even more today. She really didn't even feel like running, but she needed to find Ami before school started so that at least one of the scouts knew about what was going on and then could relate it to the others so that they understood better. Within minutes she was at her school leaving her ten minutes to find and tell Ami what was going on. As she ran into the courtyard she was surprised to find her blue haired friend in the yard with Makoto talking. When she approached them the talking ceased so suddenly that Usagi became suspicious.

"Hey, um, what were you talking about?" she inquired as she looked at both girls who shook their heads.

"Nothing important," Makoto stated while Ami nodded. Usagi decided that if they did not want to talk about their little secret that she could care less. They wanted to be like that then so what!

"Whatever," she said with a shrug. "Be childish." The pair looked at her in shock. She had never spoken like that! "I thought I should let you know about a dream I had," she stated as she looked over at Ami. After a few minutes of relaying most of the facts she let the pair absorb what she had told them.

"She said she is Beryl's child?" Usagi nodded. "I will inquire with Luna about those crystals," Ami said just seconds before the bell for school rang. As the trio ran into the school toward the respective class Usagi smelt blood and wondered if she was having another nose bleed. Then it struck her. Were these issues she was having related to Soanyo? Was she causing all of this? With a shake of her head she blew it off as future musing she needed to make it to class in time or their teacher Mrs. Mouse would have a fit! She forced herself to move faster as her two scouts made it into the room just moments before she did, but she still managed to make it just as the bell for school to begin echoed down the halls.

Later that afternoon they sat under their respective tree and waited as Ami now explained about Soanyo and the gems that now needed to be found.

"So, what is so bad about her?" Mina asked with a huff. "Her mother was weak! She should be a piece of cake." Usagi shook her head.

"She is merciless unless it suits her plans. She could have killed me last night, but because I did not have what she wanted she let me go!" the blond leader screamed.

"I wonder what minion she used as the generals were just clones and most of her minions were girls," Rei pointed out. That was the real question. If she had been made out of a minion then who had it been? If they could only find out who it had been it would give them the advantage they needed in defeating the child of the woman who had caused them such misery.

"There was one thing that I noticed and that was that she seemed pissed about be given a life, but not being normal, like not actually having a life." Everyone nodded. This seemed like a vital piece of information, but not a weakness that would help them in defeating her.

"What did she look like?" Ami inquired as she pulled out her Mercury mini computer, her back to the students around them.

"She looked just like Beryl, yet more like when she combined with Metalina. She is a little taller than me, maybe more of Mako's height and she has a dress just like Beryl's as well as red hair like her, but hers falls down around to her waist. Her eyes are so black, yet they flash red in the darkness. Damn, she gave me the creeps and her dress is black with almost like a mist appearance to the bottom of it that makes a quicksand like substance that gets who ever is within the area of her!" Then Usagi paused before continuing her idea, "Maybe she is not two people but a combination of three people!" All the scouts looked at their leader in shock as the bell shrilled loud in the large court yard. "Time to go! See you guys later." The girls just sat there in shock. When had she gotten that smart? With one last look and a shake of their heads they all got up and headed into the building for more classes.

I hope that everyone liked that one. Please review. I always like to hear what my readers think about the story and if there is anything I need to work on. Thanks for reading.